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Coursework research planner, MEST 4

Stereotypical view on religions

Primary texts for analysis:
- It’s a research showing how Hollywood vilifies people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotypes_of_Arabs_and_Muslims
- Understanding Islam

http://www.islamicity.com/mosque/uiatm/un_islam.htmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyQYBxela4I
- Global connections webpage (answering some of the stereotypical view questions)http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/globalconnections/mideast/questions/types/index.html
- Stereotypical view on Islam

Planned reading: named books or research directions:
- ‘How Hollywood vilifies a people’ – Jack G. Shaheen
http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/papers/pmt/exhibits/2501/shaheen.pdf~
- A book of religious knowledge – the real outline
http://www.alislam.org/books/religiousknowledge/sec1.html

Web sources named sites or research directions:
- Youtube.com
- e-library (tresham’s)
- http://www.indianexpress.com/news/not-just-a-muslim/786262/0
(a blog of a muslim woman called ‘Not just a Muslim’)
- Wikipedia (stereotypical views on each religion)

PRODUCTION OUTLINE:
My plan for my production is to make an article. Article will include an interview with some celebrity and their stereotypical view/experience about religions. The person that the celebrity will be interviewed with will be really rational, and will persuade the celebrity (with some back-up arguments from my critical investigation) that some of the really stereotypical views on certain religion are wrong.

To make this article I’ll have to use Mac computers at college.

 I will have to look up certain celebrity magazines to see which one suits best for the article I want make. Then, I will look and do research about the ‘outlook’ of this magazine, and make my article in the same way as they’re doing their articles.

My notes for the debate (21.09.11)

There were two groups in  the debate, the question of our debate was;
 'Are social media network good or evil in contemporary society?' and it was about London Riots 2011.

My group's aim was to convience the other group that social network was a positive thing in London Riots.
Here are the short points we've covered:

1) Our first and main point is that social network isn't to blame for it, because riots would happen anyway, as they happened many years ago, when social network such as Facebook, Twitter or BBM didn't even exist. We can't blame social network for bad things, but people who use it.

2) E.g. Arab Spring which started in December 2010 in Tunisia, and spread out to other North-African countries like Egypt etc. People used facebook to communicate, and they used it in a good way. They fighted for their rights, when most of the people involved in London Riots didn't even know what they were 'rioting' for.

'How facebook changed the world'

3) We also talked about how Twitter organized a group of people who were cleaning after London Riots.

We were talking about how the guardian and other countries (Poland) represented these cases, and other sources of information were saying about these cases and social network influence.

4) We also talked about Aaron Biber (89 years old) and agency called BBH. Aaron Biber had a barbershop, which was destroyed by London Riots. People on Twitter and Facebook after seen the video of him, tried to help him fix his old barbershop. He got about 1271 votes and over 600 comments. Also, agency called BBH organised a webpage, in which people were donating money online for Aaron Biber and other people influenced by London Riots.

 

(All the scan shots of the printed pictures were shown and spread out around the classrom, while our discussion.)

In the conclusion we decided that social network made the situation bigger and more dangerou than it should be, however social network isn't to blame for it.

Questions from part 3.

Here are the scan shots of answers for the question in part 3. I have also done my own questionnaire about London Riots, which helped me to back up my answers for these questions.

DIGITAL BRITAIN REPORT

1)       What is the purpose of the report?

The purpose of this report is to check how digital technologies work and change over time. It also tries to keep going on improving it for people, so people in knowledge of how to use new digital technologies.

2)      What are the 5 main objectives set out by the report? (p9)

i.                     Modernising and upgrading our wired, wireless and broadcasting infrastructure to sustain Britain’s position as a leading digital economy.

ii.                    Providing a favourable climate for investment and innovation in digitalii.content, applications and services

iii.                  Securing a range of high quality public service content, particularly in news.

iv.                 Developing the nation’s digital skills at all levels.

v.                   Securing universal access to broadband, increasing its take-up and using broadband to deliver more public services more effectively and more efficiently.

3)      What are the 7 main achievements that the report highlights? (p3)

i.                     An analysis of the levels of digital participation, skills and access needed for the digital future, with a plan for increasing participation, and more coherent public structures to deal with it.

ii.                   An analysis of our communications infrastructure capabilities, an identification of the gaps and recommendations on how to fill them.

iii.                  A statement of ambition for the future growth of our creative industries, proposals for a legal and regulatory framework for intellectual property in a digital world, proposals on skills and a recognition of the need for investment support and innovation.

iv.                 A restatement of the need for specific market intervention in the UK content market, and what that will demand of the BBC and its role in Digital Britain. What that means for the future of the C4 Corporation. An analysis of the importance of other forms of independent and suitably funded news, and what clarification and changes are needed to the existing framework.

v.                   An analysis of the skills, research and training markets, and what supply side issues need addressing for a fully functioning digital economy.

vi.                 A framework for digital security and digital safety at international and national levels and recognition that in a world of high speed connectivity we need a digital framework not an analogue one.

vii.                A review of what all of this means for the Government and how digital governance in the information age demands new structures, new safeguards, and new data management, access and transparency rules.

4)      What were the Governments targets by 2012? (p12)

i.                     Deliver the Universal Service Broadband Commitment at 2Mbps (in more than 1 in 10 households)

ii.                   Public support for the network, so customers in the Final Third, who won’t be reached by the market, can enjoy next generation broadband.

5)      What examples does it outline that the internet is useful for other than social networking? (p29)

i.                     Health Services

ii.                   Online Shopping

iii.                  Online Banking

iv.                 Job Applications

v.                   Self-publishing

vi.                 Communication

6)      What is the fundamental reason for improving Digital Media in Britain? (p27)

Building a Digital Knowledge Economy.

7)      How does the digital sector in Britain compare to other countries? (p11)

It says that digital communications through network are getting much better in other countries, than in Britain. E.g. Countries around the Pacific Rim are adopting next generation networks, and elsewhere in Europe, Germany, France, and Finland have all adopted national broadband or wider digital strategies. 

8)      Indicate some of the negative factors for people not accessing the internet. (p30-32)

i.                     People who do not have it are expected to be at a significant disadvantage. This is because people expect that more vital services will be delivered solely online in the future, or be provided offline in a way that penalises people who access them in this way, perhaps at a higher cost or lower quality. It is expected that people could lose access to a wide range of services and activities: shopping, banking, school work, public services, and downloading TV content.

ii.                   Can’t get access to some information.       

iii.                  Don’t have access to as much entertainment.

9)      What percentages of jobs require digital skills? (p31)

90%

10)   How many people in Britain still do not use the internet? (p32) What were some of the main reasons for people still not using the internet? (p33)

15 MILLION ADULTS

i.                     Financial/resource exclusion (‘can’t afford it’ or ‘no computer’) accounted for 30% and the remaining 18% intended to get Internet access at home in the next 6 months. The evidence suggested a strong correlation between experience of the Internet and the intention to get it at home – 72% of this group were Internet users outside the home.

ii.                   42% of people interviewed were willing to pay something for an Internet connection, 13% would get it if they could get free Internet connection and computer but 43% would not get it even if both were free and said that it was irrelevant to their lives.

iii.                  Within the 30% of those in the financial/resource exclusion group, two subgroups were identified – 26% were those whose main reason related to costs or equipment and 4% were those who said they did not have the knowledge or skills. 55% of those who cite cost live in social category DE homes.

iv.                 Awareness of the Internet was widespread with only 3% of respondents saying they had never heard it. Use outside the home also varied widely: 32% of respondents used the Internet outside of the home; 24% were non-users with indirect access via family or friends carrying out tasks on the Internet on their behalf; and 43% were non-users without access either directly or indirectly.

v.                   Within the self-exclusion group, two subgroups were identified: 37% for whom the Internet was not of interest and 5% who said they did not need it at home because they were happy with the access they had. Respondents who said they were indifferent tended to be older and did not use the Internet.

11)     Indicate 6 positive factors of increasing digital participation in Britain? (p26)

i.              Better access to TV

ii.             Wider access to entertainment

iii.            Online Shopping

iv.                 Easier to do school homework

v.                   Better control over under-age children

12)    Give some examples of how you think improving access to broadband to all home will vastly improve people’s lives.

I think that it will improve people’s lives because people will be more likely to become ‘open-minded’ on the media-world and everything around. Also, it will make people’s lives easier by having access to all of the other examples I’ve shown in question 5.

13)    What does the report state about intellectual property? (p7)

?

some research

Revolution in Tunisia, how it started an Arab Spring.





In October 2010, best-selling New Yorker essayist Malcolm Gladwell published a piece titled "Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted," a derisive attack on the notion that social networking websites would ever play a major role in fomenting meaningful nonviolent resistance to authoritarian regimes. "If you're taking on a powerful and organized establishment you have to be a hierarchy," Gladwell argued. "Think of the ceaseless pattern of correction and revision, amendment and debate, that characterizes Wikipedia. If Martin Luther King, Jr., had tried to do a wiki-boycott in Montgomery, he would have been steamrollered by the white power structure."








website

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunisian_revolution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring

tv

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12076532

newspapers: guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/dec/31/tunisia-inspiring-rebellion-arab-world?INTCMP=SRCH


http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/dec/30/tunisia-uprising-egypt-hostages?INTCMP=SRCH



http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2011/jan/19/tunisia-protests-pictures?INTCMP=SRCH#/?picture=370787049&index=1

just questions

What role do you think social media networks played in this summer's riots?


What groups were represented in the coverage of the riots and do you think this coverage was biased (have a look at some different newspaper articles/websites etc) What kind of words were used to describe these groups?

Some media commentators have said that these kind of mobile, real time networks and technologies although they may not cause these types of events, they can act as an 'accelerant'. What do you think this means and do you agree? Are there similarities or differences between what happened in London and recent events in other countries (Give examples)?